Illustrated by A. G. Walker

A Book of Ballad Stories Selected and Edited by MARY MACLEOD With Introduction by EDWARD DOWDEN ' Beyond it rose a castle fair Y-built of marble stone ; The battlements were gilt with gold, Arid glittered in the sun.'— y. 129. ' Miss Mary ^[achod "IsS'^Njv has succeeded admirably — ^- "^^^^^^^A^ "^ keephu/ much of the ^ spirit of the oriyinals in / her prose versions of the best of the old ballads. Truth. ' Should take a high place. In this work the famous ballads have been done into prose so skilfully, and have been so artistically illus- trated, that it forms a volume to be niyhly prized. ' — Standaed. ' She stoutly steered the stots about.'— p. 110. Large croion Svo. printed on superfine paper, cloth boards.